I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
Men in high levels of government seldom surf.
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering. " Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.